PREFACE. 
Seven years have elapsed since we submitted our first 
number to the Entomologists of this country. That this was 
effected with some amount of misgiving, is not to be denied. 
We knew that former disinterested attempts to establish purely 
Entomological Journals had, sooner or later, succumbed to what 
appeared an inevitable, and large, pecuniary loss. It is with 
pardonable self-congratulation, then, that we see the close of our 
Seventh Volume; and we believe that any deficiency in the 
collective balance-sheet of the undertaking, so far as it has gone, 
is likely to be eventually, if but slowly, reduced and ex- 
tinguished. 
We thank our supporters for so ably and successfully 
seconding our endeavours to furnish Entomologists with a 
standard serial at a moderate cost; if each of them will continue 
his assistance, and introduce the Magazine to the notice of his 
friends, we shall not fear the future. 
1, Paternoster Row, London, E.c. 
May, 1871. 
